Exercise Presuppositions: Difference between revisions

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The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS).
Involved participants: Katharina, Caterina, Daniela, Eva

The following sentences make certain presuppositions. Indicate which of the given candidate inferences are presuppositions?

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 { I want more milk for my tea!
-|type="()"}
+|type="[]"}
-+ Done
+- I hate tea with milk.
-|| The utterance "I want more milk for my tea!" has the following presuppostions:
+|| This is not an inference of the given sentence at all.
-|| # Someone is having tea.
++ I am having tea.
-|| # Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.
+|| A presupposition because it follows from the negation of the sentence as well: (''I don't want more milk for my tea'' +> ''I am having tea.'')
-|| # This person doesn't like his/her tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.
++ Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.
-|| # He/She prefers more milk in his/her tea.
+|| This presupposition is triggered by ''more''.
+- I do not like my tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.
+|| This is an implicature.
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	There are dishes that need to be washed up.
	I do not have time to do the dishes.
	The dishes needed to be washed up before.
	Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.

	I hate tea with milk.
	I am having tea.
	Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.
	I do not like my tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.